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Trump's trade threats spiral out of control as Canada slaps down 100 pages of tariffs

President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning threatening Canada online while Ottawa put a nearly 100-page tariff schedule on the calendar he cannot stop.

Four Canadian cabinet ministers announced the retaliatory tariffs in Ottawa on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. The duties cover about 700 American products and take effect Sept. 8.

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‘God help us’: Disturbing clue rumored on Trump’s mystery beef as old clip resurfaces

A resurfaced clip of President Donald Trump went viral online Tuesday as onlookers believed it may have revealed the origin of the mysterious 300,000-metric-ton ground beef shipment the president announced last week.

Last Friday, Trump announced that he’d closed a deal to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef — the equivalent of more than 2.6 billion quarter-pounder hamburger patties — that would be sold at 25% below market price amid rising beef prices. When asked about the source of the ground beef, however, Trump declined to answer.

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Trump's ignored warnings, beaming applause and private fuming exposed in new Iran report

New reporting shows how President Donald Trump ignored explicit warnings about attacking Iran, briefly basked in adulation at its initial success and then privately stewed as those gloomy projections came to pass.

Days before launching the war with Iran in February, the president summoned then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to the Oval Office to ask whether a full-scale attack was wise, according to a Wall Street Journal report drawing on accounts from people familiar with the meeting.

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Trump reminded of glaring vulnerability as he ramps up threats against Canada

President Donald Trump is about to face a hard reality as he rushes helter-skelter into an expanding trade war with Canada.

According to a report from Politico, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has unified his country behind a strong stance against the American president, while Trump is simultaneously alienating voters and members of his own party who oppose the trade confrontation.

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Frantic Target yanks 'horrifically racist' Halloween costume off shelves amid mass outrage

Target has removed a Halloween costume from its shelves after widespread criticism on social media that it resembled a racist caricature.

The item, sold as the "Kids' Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume," showed a Black child wearing a bright orange and black top with solid black gloves and a mask featuring a wide, toothy smile, which critics said evoked caricatures of Black people used in minstrel shows, reported The Guardian.

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Trump board threatens to destroy 'unsafe' Kennedy Center in apocalyptic court filing

The Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.

Justice Department lawyers made the argument for Trump on Monday in a court filing before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper. It opposes an emergency motion by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), a board member who sued to stop the renaming.

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MAGA election denier's campaign blows past recount deadline: 'I'm not paying'

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has refused to pay for a recount in his campaign for governor after claiming the election was riddled with fraud. This comes after the election denier squandered millions of dollars of his fortune in a quest to prove President Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

Lindell's campaign announced Monday that it was withholding the money, hours before the 11:59 p.m. cutoff set by Minnesota election officials, KSTP reported.

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Trump becomes Ghislaine Maxwell’s last hope as judge ends ‘frivolous’ release bid

A federal judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her sex trafficking convictions, dismissing her claims as "meritless" and mostly "frivolous."

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer denied the petition in a 67-page opinion dated Tuesday, leaving her 20-year sentence intact.

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Trump posts oddly familiar grievance amid revelations on who runs his socials

President Donald Trump took to social media Tuesday to announce that he’d instructed his Defense secretary to scale back the United States’ annual military exercise with South Korea in a near-identical post to one he made more than a week ago.

Trump first made the announcement on Aug. 16, but on Tuesday, Aug. 25, issued a near-identical statement with four inconsequential alterations, such as changing the tense of verbs. The odd post comes amid new revelations that Trump’s social media posts are often written by Natalie Harp, his 35-year-old female aide whose unusually close relationship with the president has unsettled the White House, earning her the nickname of Trump’s human "binky."

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Ex-insider spills on Trump's appearance with no makeup: 'Like an open can of Spam'

According to a longtime — and now former — friend of Donald Trump, the president has a makeup routine designed to obscure a very unhealthy-looking skin tone.

Anthony Scaramucci, who was part of Trump's first administration in 2017 based on his friendship with Trump during his real estate development days, lasted just 11 days after getting into a spat with colleagues and then experiencing a falling out with the president.

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NYT's Haberman deciphers White House's 'neon sign' after Natalie Harp cropped out of video

A new detail about President Donald Trump's close aide Natalie Harp has renewed questions about their relationship.

The White House social media account posted video from Sunday's Freedom 250 Grand Prix that appeared to crop the 35-year-old aide out of the frame as the president waved a green flag and first lady Melania Trump stood at his side, and New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman discussed the continuing scandal on "CNN This Morning.

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Jesse Watters concedes nasty insult of MAGA Senate hopeful landed

Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed tore into his Republican opponent Mike Rogers Monday night during an appearance on Fox News with an attack so biting that even conservative host Jesse Watters was forced to admit he found it “funny.”

“I have a lot to talk about when it comes to my work taking care of communities,” El-Sayed said, speaking of his run for Senate against his opponent backed by President Donald Trump.

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Panicked farmers engulfed in 'crisis' as they stare down years of pain due to Trump

American farmers are bracing for two years of pain as fallout from President Donald Trump's war with Iran collides with an unresolved trade war and a punishing Midwest drought, six months into a conflict that has upended the cost of running a farm.

A study by the American Farm Bureau Federation found growers of the nation's nine principal row crops are on track to lose more than $31 billion this year and $32 billion in 2027 – which would mark the sixth straight year of losses on their most important crops – even after federal aid, reported the Financial Times.

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